come to

British  

verb

1. to regain consciousness or return to one's normal state

2. (adverb) nautical to slow a vessel or bring her to a stop

3. (preposition) to amount to (a sum of money)

   your bill comes to four pounds

4. (preposition) to arrive at (a certain state)

   what is the world coming to?

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come to Idioms  

1. Recover consciousness, as in She fainted but quickly came to . [Second half of 1500s]

2. Arrive at, learn, as in I came to see that Tom had been right all along . [c. 1700]

3. See amount to , def. 2.

4. See when it comes to .

5. Stop a sailboat or other vessel by bringing the bow into the wind or dropping anchor, as in “The gale having gone over, we came to” (Richard Dana, Two Years Before the Mast , 1840). [Early 1700s] Also see the subsequent entries beginning with come to .

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Example Sentences

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come to

“And if it hurts, hopefully it motivates those who are in power to make sure that when these things come to light, they put a stop to it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

So neither they nor their rival Chinese AI makers are likely to come to an arrangement themselves.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Many of China’s brightest computer-engineering students come to the U.S. for educational opportunities, then stay to build careers in American tech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

In other words, Mr. President, he might have added, we come to praise you, not pressure you into taking any actions that you don’t feel like taking.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

I repeat what I told Dad last spring, and then again after Mom and I went to the info night that he couldn’t, or rather wouldn’t, come to.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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